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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






2. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






3. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






4. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






5. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






6. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






7. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






8. The time and place of a story or play.






9. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






10. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






11. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






12. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






13. A strong pause within a line.






14. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






15. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






16. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






17. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






18. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






19. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






20. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






21. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






22. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






23. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






24. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






25. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






26. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






27. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






28. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






29. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






30. The main character of a literary work.






31. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






32. Broken down acts.






33. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






34. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






35. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






36. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






37. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






38. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






39. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






40. The selection of words in a literary work.






41. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






42. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






43. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






44. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






45. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






46. A four line stanza in a poem.






47. The dictionary meaning of a word.






48. A short saying with a moral.






49. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






50. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.







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